THE DREAM OF MALLAM SHEHU
HOME Keep running in the reading race……. ONE AN AFRICAN NIGHT OF ENTERTAINMENT THE DREAM There was once a man called Mallam Shehu. He was a rich man, richer than anybody else who lived at that time. Wealth was the gift that Allah had given him; and he had three wives, but of children he had none and was unhappy for that reason. Whenever he said his prayers, he did not ask Allah to give him a son or daughter of any particular talent. But any child, someone he could look upon as his own. One night when he was asleep, he dreamed that he went to market. There he saw a man selling horse. Now Shehu liked the horse and when he heard that someone had already bought it for three pounds, he offered the seller three pounds ten shillings. The man who had already bought the was offended and he said; ‘Madam, why do you want to deprive me of my barging?” ‘Not so, my friend. I want the horse. You want the horse. The seller wants money. To whom should he sell?’ Mallam NEXT PREVIOU...